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Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, Virginia

Invisible History: Growing Up Colored in Cape Charles, Virginia

Tom, Godwin
Pellicer, Metty Vargas

Paperback

Biographies GeneralRegional: SouthSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1647187249
ISBN13: 9781647187248
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Inc
Published: Oct 10 2020
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The book is a memoir about growing up Black in Cape Charles, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. It details the origin of the town as a railroad terminus and connecting to ferry barges across the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, through its golden age in the Jim Crow South and its decline with the ascendancy of automobiles and the building of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Its rise again as a tourist destination in the past decade and how the fortunes of the town is chronicled, without acknowledgment of the role of the Black community, which was a robust and thriving parallel community, that evolved in response to the segregation of the Jim Crow South. Now the town is rising again as a tourist destination and replacing the Black section with White weekend second home owners, and the Black presence has considerably diminished. Without a recording of its history, its entire memory will be gone, as if it was never there at all.

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